In 1984 Judge Green forced AT&T to divest itself of the baby
bells. They all became separate and independent companies who no
longer had to buy equipment from AT&t etc.
After 1984 Western Electric became AT&T manufacturing (I know my dad
worked for them at this time) The plants got smaller and smaller
because the baby bells did not have to buy from mama bell anymore and
all did their own thing. I believe that there are no phones
manufactured in the US anymore. Most of the old Western plants are all closed.
Later on A&T manufacturing got spun off as Lucent, they combined with
Avaya (sic) and then they got absorbed by Alcatel.
AT&T got ealner and worse off.
The Baby Bells have become bigger than their parent and yes they are
converging back. No doubt about it, but the new AT&T is not the old AT&T.
Stewart
At 11:21 PM 9/17/2008, you wrote:
By the way the AT&T they talked about in the article no longer
exists. The new AT&T is actually one of the baby bells that was
divested in 1984.
Are you sure about that? Start by clicking on some of the links.
You should be done reading by say, late October. And I know
you're a fast reader.
Early in my career an older and wiser employee said, "You think
the phone company broke up? You're wrong."
Culturally Verizon/Nynex/Bell Atlantic/GTE/MCI and SBC/Bell
South/Ameritech/AT&T/Pacific Telesis, and Qwest are basically
all Bell System components.
Except that now they all play in all arenas as far as transport is
concerned. Equipment and R&D are still separate but convergence
is inevitable.
We are heading in the direction of what we had before all of the
regulation.
I'm going to get in trouble for saying that.
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